Panel: Gas Tax Should Go Up
Original Article A coalition of business, labor, environmental and civic leaders yesterday urged the Legislature to raise the state gas tax 10 cents a gallon over the next two years to help pay for replacements for the imperiled Alaskan Way Viaduct and Highway 520 floating bridge as well as other transportation projects. The viaduct and 520 should be priorities because Read More ›
New Lobbying Push Begins For Amtrak Overhaul
Who’s Afraid of Intelligent Design?
Original Article My favorite high school teacher, Al Ladendorff, conducted his American history class like an extended version of “Meet the Press.” Nothing, not even the textbooks other teachers treated as Holy Writ, was safe from attack. I looked forward to that class every day. My biology class, sadly, was another story. I slogged joylessly through all the phyla and Read More ›
Discovery Calls Dover Evolution Policy Misguided, Calls For Its Withdrawal
SEATTLE, DEC. 14 – The policy on teaching evolution recently adopted by the Dover, PA School Board was called “misguided” today by Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, which advised that the policy should be withdrawn and rewritten. “While the Dover board is to be commended for trying to teach Darwinian theory in a more open-minded manner, this is Read More ›
Civic Leadership Group Calls for Prioritizing Viaduct and Evergreen Point Bridge
Contact: Bruce Agnew or Dave Earling, Cascadia Center(206) 292-0401 (ext.113 or 144)(206) 228-4011 or (206) 920-5593 cell phone Civic Leadership Group Calls for Prioritizing Viaduct and Evergreen Point BridgeEndorses $8 Billion/10 Year State Revenue Package & Comparable Regional Package The Transportation Working Group (TWG), an assemblage of civic leaders drawn from King, Pierce and Snohomish counties and staffed by the Read More ›
State’s Next Governor Must Reverse Economic Slide
Original Article Rossi or Gregoire? More than a month after the election, we still do not know who Washington’s next governor will be. But while Republicans and Democrats continue to battle over the final count, it is not premature to think about where the next governor will take the state. After all, January is rapidly approaching the business of Read More ›
San Francisco Chronicle publishes dueling op-eds on teaching the controversy
Stanford neurology prof Robert Sapolsky squared off against CSC Director Stephen Meyer and CSC senior fellow John Campbell on the pages of Friday’s San Franscisco Chronicle. Sapolsky dodged the real scientific controversies and instead spewed stereotypes and politically motivated ad hominem attacks at intelligent design supporters. Contrast that with the serious issues raised by Meyer and Campbell, who delve into Read More ›
Questions and Answers About Climate Change
THE CITIZEN SCIENTIST (www.sas.org/tcs)(See web page for important graphs and a satellite image of the Bering Glacier.) Last year I attended a science conference in Fairbanks, Alaska, where I heard much about the problem of thawing tundra. I distinctly recall a drive along a formerly flat road that had dips caused by thawed permafrost. That road was on my mind Read More ›
School clarifies policy on evolution
The Grantsburg, Wis., school district has changed its controversial policy on the teaching of evolution to clarify that creationism and the theory of intelligent design will not be taught in class. School Board members approved the new version Monday evening on a 6-1 vote. Superintendent Joni Burgin said they rewrote the policy to make sure it was legally sound and Read More ›